Who Was Zacharia Stitchen?

A Russian-born American book author named Zecharia Sitchin proposed an explanation for human origins involving ancient astronauts in the  Erich Von Däniken line of thought except that those ancient astronauts named the Anunnaki, were a race of extraterrestrials from a planet beyond Neptune called Nibiru. Sitchin believed this hypothetical planet of Nibiru to be in an elongated, elliptical 3600 year orbit in the Earth's own Solar System, asserting that Sumerian mythology sourced this. Sitchin's books have been million-sellers  worldwide and thus in their popularity have been translated into over 25 languages.

Many scientists and academics dismiss Sitchin's ideas and his work as pseudoscience and pseudohistory with flawed methodology and mistranslations of ancient texts and even incorrect astronomical and scientific claims.


William Irwin Thompson in his book,"Coming Into Being" comments on what he calls Sitchin's 'literalism':

What Sitchin sees is what he needs for his hypothesis. So figure 15 on page 40 is radiation therapy, and figure 71 on page 136 is a god inside a rocket-shaped chamber. If these are gods, why are they stuck with our cheap B movie technology of rockets, microphones, space-suits, and radiation therapy? If they are gods, then why can't they have some really divine technology such as intradimensional worm-hole travel, antigravity, starlight propulsion, or black hole bounce rematerializations? Sitchin has constructed what appears to be a convincing argument, but when he gets close to single images on ancient tablets, he falls back into the literalism of "Here is an image of the gods in rockets." Suddenly, ancient Sumer is made to look like the movie set for Destination Moon. Erich Von Däniken's potboiler Chariots of the Gods? has the same problem. Nazca plains in Peru is turned into a World War II landing strip. The gods can cross galactic distances, but by the time they get to Peru, their spaceships are imagined as World War II prop jobs that need an enormous landing strip. This literalization of the imagination doesn't make any sense, but every time it doesn't, you hear Sitchin say "There can be no doubt, but..."

 Thompson, William Irwin Coming into being: artifacts and texts in the evolution of consciousness pp.75-76

Zecharia Sitchin or Заха́рия Си́тчин (Russian)
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